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I definitely have found it to be the most enlightening release in the series

I'm sorry (and surprised) to hear that. I also pre-paid, and have received all except the final three installments, and they have been good about answering my email inquiries (though it's been a year at lest since I contacted them). I hope they do right by you. I don't remember a September survey email.

Beware, parents, your kids could look like this if not guarded from the addictive evils of 7-Up and pressed ham sandwiches! BTW, fun album, though a little frothy even in terms of flower pop. Bunch of studio musicians IIRC.

I'm in.

Not so sure it is a you problem. A lot of coasting players on routine dates on a lot of those albums.

Same here on all counts.

Read this on an Amazon review (of Liebman's Wayne Shorter tribute album) by someone with the handle Roochak: "Liebman seems to have a confrontational relationship with the soprano sax; the instrument does exactly what he wants it to do, except when it doesn't. "

Interesting, but in French with no subtitles.

From the new box set. Norman Harris Philly Soul masterpiece.

True That!

Thanks.

I'm buying more digital these days because we're less likely to ever get CD's, but am much more selective and do have price limits on those. Do you happen to have a link to those? Not seeing on Bandcamp.

Waiting for CD's.

Amen.

G-Man?

Bottom line: 1974 was a spectacular year for jazz releases!

I saw that. Also available through his Substack (I have a free subscription). I own 43 of them, as my collection/taste/knowledge is so concentrated on that era. Pick a random year in the 2000's, and I probably have like 5 of the best 50 from that year. What I don't have - the two Braxton's, the Humphrey, the Mitchell, the Rivers Hues (would pick up a CD release of it in a heartbeat), and the two Rypdal's.

Great description. the Grooovies of that era did that so well. I have a lot of their output from then, and listen to it. Plus the contemporaneous Chris Wilson solo albums. All much more convincing to me than their early Roy Loney rockabilly phase.

Also, we're in the USA, where punk was seemingly a very different and less sweeping experience than in the UK. For instance, 'Never Mind The Bollocks..." chart peak was # 106 here, #1 in England.

Apples and oranges comparing those labels and BN !! Some of the BYG stuff is stunningly good, especially the Moncur's, the Arthur Jones, and some of the Shepp's (and there's a decent amount on that label I've never heard). Some of it, like the Silva, leave me cold, with my aversion to Euro free stuff.

Sold.

She's 87 years old, was 32 when that awesome first album came out in 1969. Amazing career.